Cats are easily stressed, change traumatises them in addition to being solitary hunters, they are solitary eaters, think about that when you are looking for cat boarding facilities that claim to be “free range”
Pet Food marketing is a huge industry, always shop with your head and not your heart when you buy a bag of dog food.
If the walker is untrained, the dog knows it and will take advantage. It’s an amusing situation until your dog is frightened on a noisy, busy street and breaks away from his/ her dog walker. Make sure your dog walker is trained, never mind the dog, train the walker.
This week, Mumbai experienced the most severe rainfall in 45 years. Dogs are good swimmers, and under ordinary conditions can look after themselves. However, when a dog is exhausted, or trying to swim against a strong current, it can be at risk of drowning.
Swimming for dogs is not only fun, its a full body work out. Make sure the pool you take them to is up to standard & read about a condition that may occur as a consequence of swimming.
Crossing paths with a happy puppy on his walk, turns into a lovely chat about dog recognition, dog walkers and meeting an incredible dog mom.
The explosion of pet services, is encouraged by google searches of “pet groomer near me” or “pet boarding near me. This makes us enablers of mediocre services.
On a personal note, my dog lived to the age of 17. His emotional state meant he could not live without a member of the family present. Family vacations were local, or in shifts. I wouldn’t trade one day of those 17 years for a “family holiday”
